Tag: anthro in the news

Take that trash and… Liberty Landfill. Source: Ian Burt, Flickr  The Atlantic interviewed cultural anthropologist Joshua Reno, assistant professor at Binghamton University about his research on …

Children playing in tailings downstream from the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea, 2009. Source: Brent Stirton/Getty Images One of the worst disasters CBC radio (Canada) presented…

Sorry is not enough Source: Pixabay The Star Phoenix of Saskatoon (Canada) reported on a lecture at the University of Saskatchewan by Audra Simpson, professor of anthropology at Columbia…

Source: Creative Commons/Flickr People posting: Why and what The Economist carried an article about the emerging findings of a multi-country anthropological study of social media led by Daniel…

Source: Ryan Carey By Sean Carey London’s Chinatown, which lies between Shaftesbury Avenue and Leicester Square, is changing fast. Why? Mainly because the area’s biggest landlord, Shaftesbury, i…

Trump declaring party loyalty in September 2015. Source: Wikipedia Trump’s shallow celebrity culture Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, published…

Prisoners attending a prison concert which is meant to be a positive activity for them. Source: Noisey Inmates take control in many Mexican prisons Quartz reported on the…

Republished with permission from The University of California  “A new book by paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee about human evolution is a best-seller in South Korea.” Photo by Hee-Joong Le…

Food trends in the UK BBC News reported on results from a long-term study of changes in food consumption in the U.K. since the 1970s: Pasta is rising,…

Countries that have past or current evidence of Zika virus transmission as of January 2016. Source: Wikipedia. Zika spurs abortion rights debate in Latin America The Washington Post…

On eliminating Valentine’s Day in U.S. public schools According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, many schools in the Minneapolis area will not be marking Valentine’s Day or many…

On eliminating Valentine’s Day in U.S. public schools According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, many schools in the Minneapolis area will not be marking Valentine’s Day or many…

Source: Creative Commons U.S. football violence Cultural anthropologist William Murphy, lecturer in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University, published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun Ti…

  Eritrea landscape. Source: Creative Commons Misguided U.K. asylum policy As described in an article in the Guardian, John Campbell, reader in the anthropology of Africa and law…

Buy a kidney, exploit the poor and desperate Washington Post published a weekly “In Theory” piece by medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California at Berkeley.…